Who better to write a political thriller than the daughter of a president? Margaret Truman's first book in the Capital Crimes series, Murder in the White House, takes readers on a whirlwind journey through the public halls of power and the private corridors of the White House. When the Secretary of State is found murdered in the Lincoln bedroom, Ron Fairbanks, special counsel to the president and secret suitor of presidential daughter Lynne, is appointed...

Justice must be served when a chief clerk is killed in this mystery by the New York Times–bestselling author. When Clarence Sutherland, Chief Clerk of the Supreme Court, is found dead, Lieutenant Martin Teller of the DC police and Susanna Pincher of the Justice Department are pulled together to find the killer. It turns out that Sutherland had a lot of confidential information on important people, and any one of them could be responsible for his...

British Ambassador to the U.S. Geoffrey James is a shady sort, prone to womanizing and taking financial advantage of his contacts. When Ambassador James drops dead at his own gala party, everyone suspects the ambassador's Iranian valet Nuri Hafez-who has suspiciously disappeared. But Washington Metro's Captain Sal Morizio and his fellow officer and lover, Connie Lake, are convinced there is something far more sinister going on. Margaret Truman enlivens...

When the corpse of a young woman is found floating down Washington's C&O Canal, everyone is shocked to learn the victim is none other than Valerie Frolich-a senator's daughter, Georgetown graduate, and a rising star in the cutthroat world of investigative journalism. Washington Post reporter Joe Potamos is good at unearthing the skeletons in the nation's capital, so when he's assigned the Frolich story, he immediately senses this case is rife with...

At a fundraiser at the Kennedy center for the presidental candidate, Senator Ken Ewald Andrea Feldman, a staff-worker for the senator, is murdered. Andrea was, having an affair with Ewald's married son, Paul. Now Paul's wife disappears and the murder weapon turns out to be the senator's own gun.

"Margaret Truman has become a first-rate mystery writer."
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When a genius doctor is murdered and a desert madman gains the means to kill millions, Major Margit Falk, a helicopter pilot and Pentagon lawyer, is drawn into Project Safekeep—an antimissile scheme under congressional investigation. The alleged murderer has his share of secrets, but Falk smells conspiracy in the air. And although she turns to...

A curator of the National Gallery in Washington finds a lost Caravaggio and prepares an exhibition. First, though, he makes a copy of the painting, keeping the original for himself. A tale of blackmail and murder featuring sleuth Annabel Reed-Smith.

Sleuth Mac Smith flies to Mexico on a fact-finding tour as the White House seeks to formulate a policy towards Mexican revolutionaries. Prompting the trip is the spread of violence, including murder, all the way to Washington.

It was the site of one of the most infamous assassinations in American history. Now bestselling mystery master Margaret Truman premieres a new murder at Ford’s Theater–one that’s hot off today’s headlines.
The body of Nadia Zarinski, an attractive young woman who worked for senator Bruce Lerner–and who volunteered at Ford’s–is discovered in the alley behind the theatre. Soon a pair of mismatched cops–young,...

When two women are found murdered in the nation's capital, crime reporter Joe Wilcox invents a serial killer stalking the city, but the sudden appearance of his mentally ill brother, Michael, leads Joe to suspect that Michael could be the real thing.

Nobody knows the crooked turns, slippery slopes, and dark, dangerous stretches of the Beltway better than Margaret Truman, dean of the Washington, D.C., mystery scene. And no one is better equipped to lead a suspenseful tour into the treacherous territory of big-time political lobbying, where the right information and enough influence can buy power–the kind that corrupts . . . and sometimes kills.
Arriving home from a fund-raising dinner,...

Times are tough in Savannah for former cop and current PI Robert Brixton, so when he agrees to take on a twenty-year-old murder case, he figures he's got nothing to lose. It's not long before the trail leads him deep into the corrupt underbelly of Savannah's power elite, and right into the lap of a secret government organization that's been offing "troublesome" politicians for decades. The cold case heats up when he joins forces with former attorneys...

"Private investigator Robert Brixton has always hated Washington. Against his better judgment, he decides to stick around and take a job as an agent in a new State Department security agency headed by his former boss at the Washington P.D. After work one day he meets his youngest daughter Janet for a drink at an outdoor cafe. Shockingly, a young Arabic woman blows herself up, killing Janet and a dozen others. Seeking revenge for his daughter, Brixton...

If someone in the pharmaceutical industry came upon a cheaper, non-addictive, and more effective painkiller, would he kill for it? Washington D.C. private detective Robert "Don't call me Bobby" Brixton, along with his mentors, attorneys Mac and Annabel Smith, discover that the answer is a resounding "Yes," as they try to help Jayla King, a medical researcher at a small D.C. pharmaceutical firm, carry on the work of her father. His experiments in the...

"The nation's first female vice president is dead. The public, including international investigator Robert Brixton, believes it was natural causes, complications related to a long-hidden heart condition. Kendra Rendine, head of Vice President Stephanie Davenport's Secret Service security detail, covertly approaches Brixton to look deeper into Davenport's death. Brixton discovers that a rumored affair between Vice President Davenport and President...